
How to Build a Better Boy
Taste attributes: familyscience fictiontv movierobots/ai/spacecomedyteenfastfresh & originalwholesomelightimaginarysimpleglossyenclosedcoming of age
"Never underestimate two girls with a plan."
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, warm-hearted sci-fi film: fresh and accessible. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Taste details
Pace: fast · Originality: very fresh · Tone: very wholesome · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
6.4 /10
TMDB · 310 votes
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What lines up
- Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
- Wholesomeness: Wholesome, where this profile leans unsavoury
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Synopsis
Mae and Gabby are two friends who go everywhere together but they are not very popular in their school. Their classmates always pressure because they have not had a boyfriend so to avoid further setbacks, the girls put in place a plan to create the perfect boyfriend. Both believe that it will be easy to create their perfect guy using the military team building; machinery owned by the father of Mae, the machine works through a wireless keyboard. The machine can create with their settings, a robotic soldier. Of this plan was born Albert an ideal guy to be a perfect boyfriend. He will be the most popular boy of the school.
Synopsis: TMDB
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Directed by
- Paul Hoen
Cast
- China Anne McClain
- Kelli Berglund
- Marshall Williams
- Matt Shively
- Ashley Argota
Details
- Genre
- Family
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Disney Channel
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.











